User blog:Snowstripe the Fierce/Continuity Errors in Redwall (book)

1. Martin the Warrior was said to have arrived in Mossflower in deep winter, when the Abbey was under attack from vermin. This is strange, seeing as though he was one of its founders. My thoughts are that this was not referring to the Great Mossflower War, rather the events following his journey to find his father Luke. This still wouldn't explain the weather nor Martin's friends' absence, but it does help.

2. It is mentioned that there is an unwritten law that Redwall mice can go anywhere they please without being harmed, basically having diplomatic immunity. This is because they wear the Abbey's signature green habits. I find this strange because many Redwall travelers don't wear those when they leave or travel, and many travelers are put in harm's way simply because they're from Redwall.

3. Cluny was mentioned as being a Portuguese rat. Since Redwall does not take place in the real world, this is confusing.

4. Redtooth was carrying a tall pole with a ferret's skull fixed at its top in Chapter 2, which served as Cluny's personal standard. The sentence is followed by "..Cluny had killed the ferret. He feared no living thing." While ferrets are dangerous to rats in the real world, the statement implies that all rats fear ferrets and/or all mustelids. Thi is strange, because in other books, rats and mustelids work together very often.

5. Constance was said to have carried the grayling Matthias and Brother Alf caught in her jaws, making her like her real-world counterpart.

6. Constance was mentioned in Chapter 3 as being one of the many Mossflower residents who were invited to the Abbot's Golden Jubilee. However, she was the Abbey's Badger Mother, and Dibbuns lived inside the Abbey, not within Mossflower Woods.

7. Mr. Churchmouse said that Cluny looked like the Devil himself, when Christianity does not exist within the world of Redwall.

8. Constance says that her grandfather knew a searat, when badgers and vermin are bitter enemies.

9. The Abbeybeasts cry out "give a rat a bad name!" when Constance says that she believes Cluny's horde has evil intentions. Woodlanders are not fond of vermin and should know very well what an army of them in Mossflower would most likely be doing.

10.Father Abbot says he used to trade tomes with fox healers. Since the only other fox healers are vermin seers, this is a discrepancy.

11. Bees were mentioned to be able to speak, and the Guosim claimed that they spoke this language in order to trade. The bee language was never mentioned again.